Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir by Fatima Bhutto Jonathan Cape HK$221
Just in case anyone is in doubt over who Fatima Bhutto is, the cover of her memoir lists her family members who have died.
For her, this intensely personal account is a tribute to her father, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was assassinated in Pakistan in 1996. Others might be more interested in her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in 2007, and their relationship.
There is also Murtaza and Benazir's father, Pakistan's former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia ul Haq and who had wanted to create a supposedly fairer Pakistan.
This part reportage, part memoir of Pakistan's first feudal family gives a colourful and turbulent insight into a curse-ridden dynasty riven for decades by bickering. In fact, the book notes, the Bhuttos originated in the deserts of Rajasthan, India, and fled to Sindh in Pakistan, the result even then of a family feud.
This is also a family of immense privilege, who fly the world and inhabit five-star hotels, in contrast to the poverty of their fellow citizens.
The memoir has provoked unbridled criticism in Pakistan and abroad. Fatima's most provocative allegation is to link the deaths of her father Murtaza and her uncle, Shahnawaz, who was seemingly poisoned in 1985, to their elder sister Benazir.